Whitehall, the largest and ugliest palace in Europe Who counted others only as they stood in relation to himself Wise and disdainful silence is difficult to keep under reverses With him one's life was safe World; so unreasoning, and so little in accord with itself MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET and PRINCESS LAMBALLE MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V1 [CM#39][cm39b10.txt]3876 A liar ought to have a good memory Because he is fat, he is thought dull and heavy Danger of confiding the administration to noblemen Do not repulse him in his fond moments He who quits the field loses it Money the universal lever, and you are in want of it Offering you the spectacle of my miseries Sentiment is more prompt, and inspires me with fear Sworn that she had thought of nothing but you all her life To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty... We look upon you as a cat, or a dog, and go on talking When the only security of a King rests upon his troops You tell me bad news: having packed up, I had rather go MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V2 [CM#40][cm40b10.txt]3877 Air of science calculated to deceive the vulgar Bad habit of talking very indiscreetly before others Clouds--you may see what you please in them Dared to say to me, so he writes Dead always in fault, and cannot be put out of sight too soon French people do not do things by halves Fresh proof of the intrigues of the Jesuits How difficult it is to do good I dared not touch that string Infinite astonishment at his sharing the common destiny Madame made the Treaty of Sienna Pension is granted on condition that his poems are never printed Pleasure of making a great noise at little expense Sending astronomers to Mexico and Peru, to measure the earth She always says the right thing in the right place She drives quick and will certainly be overturned on the road MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V3 [CM#41][cm41b10.txt]3878 Embonpoint of the French Princesses Few individuals except Princesses do with parade and publicity Frailty in the ambitious, through which the artful can act Laughed at qualities she could not comprehend Mind well stored against human casualties Policy, in sovereigns, is paramount to every other Quiet work of ruin by whispers and detraction Ridicule, than which no weapon is more false or deadly Salique Laws Thank Heaven, I am out of harness Traducing virtues the slanderers never possessed Underrated what she could not imitate Where the knout is the logician MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V4 [CM#42][cm42b10.txt]3879 Fatal error of conscious rectitude Feel themselves injured by the favour shown to others Listeners never hear any good of themselves Only retire to make room for another race Regardlessness of appearances MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV./XVI, BY HAUSSET, V5 [CM#43][cm43b10.txt]3880